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Federal court documents say Reid's mother filed for a veterans benefits after it was determined that her husband's death in November 2001 was service-related.

She died in 2006, but the benefit checks kept coming, court documents say.

On October 2010, investigators determined that the the monthly checks of $1,154 were still being deposted in the dead woman's account. The benefit checks were then stopped.

Investigators began looking ino the matter after comparing a list of recipient of veterans benefits with death records from the Social Security Administration.

Investigators found that from April 2006 to August 2010 there were frequent ATM withdrawls from the account, court documents say.

In March, investigators questioned Reid at his work in Sumner.

He acknowledged that he wasn't entitled to the benefits and that the checks should have stopped coming.

He said he sent his mother's death certificate to the Department of Veterans Affairs, but didn't call or make any other contact with the VA to report her death, court documents say.

He had his mother's ATM card and personal identification number, court documents say he told investigators.

He said he told his wife to make withdrawals from his late mother's account. Some of the money went into an account he and his wife had, court documents say.

The money went for living expenses and to siblings, court documents say he told investigators.

He told the investigators that he wanted to set up a plan to repay the money.

The VA determined that benefits of $59, 548 had been overpaid to his mother's account.

A day after his June 26 phone message, Reid told an investigator that he had been drunk when he left the voicemail. He said he was going to see treatment for alcohol dependency and that he didn't intend to flee from Washington.

Reid is scheduled to appear before a federal magistrate on the charge on Nov. 3.